Woo hoo! My goal for today was to hit 3k and I did that, just barely ( Read more... )

Oh my god, I'm so tired.

Okay, I have to work tomorrow, so I'll try to make this quick, but you know me.

First off, thank you for your comments ♥ ♥ ♥. I am reading them, really, and loving them, but it's been a kind of crazy few days (obvs), so give me a day or two to catch up ( Read more... )

In which Danny plays poker with the Pratchetts and Alan's family realizes he's picked a winner. Metaphorically.

I'm... really unhappy with this, but I'm so unhappy with it I can't even bring myself to edit it. It sucks. A lot. There's no established PoV, there's no actual plot, plus I don't actually know a single thing about poker, which makes ( Read more... )

In which Cynthia is engaged, Richard is old, and Alan is loved. This was actually supposed to be about Cynthia, but Richard stole the show.

Prompt was "diamond."

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Two Cigarettes and a Bottle of Scotch
March 2001

The party wasn't so much loud as it was filled with people. People Alan knew, people he didn't know, friends of Cynthia's from high school, ( Read more... )

In which Alan tries to avoid being a schmoopy romantic, but doesn't quite get away with it. This was a personal challenge to write a story with no dialogue. I failed. This is... very mushy. I apologize. It's... really, really mushy. It's so mushy, I'm almost embarrassed.

Prompt was "heart."

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Inability to Process

Alan's not a romantic, not really. ( Read more... )

Note: February 2009: I cannibalized most of this for NaNo and a lot of it is retconned in the NaNo novel. Still, saving for posterity.

This is the first thing I've written in months that I don't out-and-out hate.

Christmas 2005 for Alan Pratchett. It's not exactly a good one.

Based on real life? Whatever do you mean?

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Once Alicia and Scott had ( Read more... )